Tony Frangieh (1 September 1941 – 13 June 1978) was a Marada Movement politician of Lebanon who was assassinated by his fellow Maronite Phalangists during the Lebanese Civil War.
Biography[]
Antoine Frangieh was born on 1 September 1941 in Zgharta, Lebanon to a family of Maronite Christian Lebanese, and he worked in the import-export business of his father Suleiman Frangieh, who was a known warlord and crime boss with links to the Rizzuto crime family of Canada. In 1970, after his father became President of Lebanon, Tony became a member of parliament for Zgharta, succeeding his father. Frangieh became a leader of the Marada Brigade during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s, and he criticized Bachir Gemayel's close relations with Israel. On 13 June 1978 a force of 1,200 Phalangists led by Elie Hobeika and Samir Geagea killed Frangieh and his immediate family in the Ehden massacre at the family mansion in an inter-Maronite clan feud, and the Frangieh family's power was weakened.